Rikers Island Prisoners Left Behind to Face Irene — “We are not evacuating Rikers Island,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news conference Friday. Bloomberg annouced a host of extreme measures being taken by New York City in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene …

TRENDING: Ron Paul: We don't need FEMA — (CNN) - As Hurricane Irene barrels along the U.S. East Coast, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said the nation would be much better off without the Federal Emergency Management Agency. — “I live on the Gulf Coast. We put up with hurricanes all the time …

Eight dead as Irene churns to Virginia — Virginia governor confirms third death in state; 2.3 million ordered out across East Coast. Full story — John Bazemore / AP — Latest on Hurricane Irene from BreakingNews.com — Loading the latest headlines... More coverage from BreakingNews.com

Hurricane Irene Pushes North With Deadly Force — WILMINGTON, N.C. — After several anxious days of dire forecasts that forced much of the East Coast into unprecedented levels of lockdown, a weakened but still ferocious Hurricane Irene made landfall on Saturday morning along the southern coast …

Obama's Enablers — Meet the mainstream media. — As a rule, the press is the scourge of presidents. They're expected to endure unending scrutiny, mistrust, and badgering—plus hostility if they're Republicans—by a hectoring herd of reporters and commentators in the mainstream media.

Cheney book: Bush authorized leak on Iraq — Dick Cheney writes in his forthcoming book, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” that he was surprised to learn that President George W. Bush had personally authorized a leak about Iraq strategy to a Washington Post columnist …

Why won't America embrace the left? — In two centuries, the movement's history in America is plagued by failure. An expert explains why — What has the left really accomplished over the past two centuries? FDR's New Deal remains one of the great American success stories.

US official: Al-Qaida's No. 2 killed in Pakistan — WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the U.S. believes to be on the verge of defeat, U.S. officials said Saturday.

Old Letter Sheds New Light on Joe Hill Murder Case — At Woodstock, Joan Baez sang a famous folk ballad celebrating Joe Hill, the itinerant miner, songwriter and union activist who was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1915. “I never died, said he” is the song's refrain.

Man Accused of Stalking via Twitter Claims Free Speech — Even the Buddha of compassion might have been distressed to be on the receiving end of the diatribes that William Lawrence Cassidy is accused of posting on Twitter. — They certainly rattled Alyce Zeoli, a Buddhist leader based in Maryland.